MEININGER hotels and NDC Group have signed contracts for a new MEININGER hotel located directly at East Side Gallery, close to the Ostbahnhof railway station in Berlin.
The MEININGER Hotel Berlin East Side Gallery will open in autumn 2016. It will be the fifth MEININGER hotel in Berlin.
MEININGER currently operates 16 hotels in 10 European cities. It has ambitious plans for growth, and is keen to establish a presence in all key European cities within the next five years.
The new hotel will feature 206 rooms and 704 beds on seven floors; well-equipped with TV, free wifi and en-suite bathrooms all to a high specification. The basement area will offer underground parking for 17 cars. All public spaces will be located on the ground floor, including a lobby, lounge, breakfast area and bar, as well as guest kitchen and gamezone, which are all standard for MEININGER hotels.
The hotel will have a gross floor area of 6,000 sq m (64,584 sq ft). The lease agreement is termed for 25 years.
Located within walking distance of Warschauer Straße, one of Berlin’s most frequented tourist areas, and mainline railway station Ostbahnhof, which handles around 100.000 passengers daily, the hotel will have excellent connections to public transport.
Navneet Bali, CEO of MEININGER hotels says: “I’m very happy about this new project, which is a perfect addition to our Berlin portfolio. The location of the hotel is great. It’s centrally located next to transport hubs, in a very vibrant area of Berlin. With its flexible room structure, which ranges from double to multi-bed rooms, it’s the prefect hotel for different types of guests – from school groups and families, to individual travellers and corporate guests.”
About MEININGER
MEININGER provides the service and comfort of an international budget hotel with a combination of regular and multi-bedded rooms, guest kitchens and game zones. The central location, high quality furnishings and good value appeal to a variety of business and leisure customers. With innovative design and an enthusiastic team supporting it, MEININGER hotels provide a unique hotel experience that has proven popular with guests from across the world.
The bedrooms range from traditional double rooms through to rooms with multiple beds and dormitories, and are tailored and adapted to the particular target market the hotel is catering to in a specific location. The unique layout and design of a MEININGER Hotel enables it to cater equally to school groups, families, individual travellers and corporate guests.
MEININGER currently operates 16 hotels in Europe, with a total of 7,025 Beds in 10 European cities including Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne, London, Munich, Salzburg and Vienna.
In the ‘Treugast Investment Ranking 2013’, the MEININGER Group achieved an AA rating. The group is headquartered in Berlin.
About NDC Real Estate Management GmbH:
NDC is a project and property developer for structural and civil engineering in Berlin and Potsdam operating since 1991. Its main emphasis is on the commercial and residential real estate sector, with a focus on hotels, office buildings, administrative buildings and residential properties It is also comitted to urban renewel and protection of historic assets. One of its major projects has been the refurbishment of buildings at Hackescher Markt and in Potsdam to meet heritage requirements.
www.n-d-c.de/
